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I found in Gauss's biography that I am reading
now that he owned a 9-inch Troughton and Simms,
but the book gives no more details, except that Gauss
liked to use it very much. Apparently he never sailed,
but used his sextant just for fun, with
"land navigation". In the geodesic surveys he
made as a part of his duty as an astronomer
he used a Borda reflective circle and theodolites.
For astronomical observations in his university
observatory, he used meridian circles and transit
instruments (some of them apparently are still
in the observatory).
It is not clear whether his sextant survived
to our days. I've seen his observatory in Gottingen,
(from outside)
it looks completely neglected, and there is no
access to the inside, no museum, nothing.

Alex.

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Michael Dorl wrote:

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> Here's a link to a picture of the 10 DM note with the sextant and the
> portrait of Gauss.
> It is fairly large and will take some minutes to load if you have a slow
> connection as I
> do.
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> http://www.didaktik.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/history/ausstell/gauss/geldschein.html
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